Tamil Movie Review Saivam - Cast & Crew

Rajya lakshmi is a very famous South Indian Actress born on 18 December 1964. She was born in Tenali, Andhra Pradesh. She started as an actor in small plays along with her mother. When she was 15 years old, she was selected to play the female lead in the blockbuster hit movie, ‘Shankarabharanam’ in which she was paired to Chandra Mohan.  The success of the movie also made her a household name and many people started referring the movie’s name to her’s and it had almost become her surname. Though she acted in several movies later, this particular movie had set a landmark in her career.

She also mentions that NTR had once complimented her on her acting skills and her looks in the movie which meant a lot to her. She has acted in all the South Indian languages i.e, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil and Malayalam. Due to this, she had the big opportunity of working with many leading actors such as N.T.Ramarao, Nageshwara Rao, Rajinikanth, Balakrishna, Mohanlal, Jitendra, Vishnuvardhan, Mammooty, Dilip, etc.  She has acted in more than 250 movies in her career.

In the year 1990, she got married to Ramesh Krisnan and went to Singapore where she stayed for almost 15 years. She came back to Chennai in 2005 and the couple have two children named Rohit Krishnan and Rahul Krishnan. She made a comeback in Telugu and Tamil movies. She is happy to be doing the roles that she is being offered now. However, she feels that the roles in these days are not very powerful and noticeable. Also, she feels that the importance in the movies made in this generation is only focused on the hero and the heroine of the film and not on the other actors which are also important for the movie. She is interested in doing a powerful role in a movie to display her talent and acting skills and is awaiting such a role for herself.

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Rajyalakshmi is an Indian film actress who works primarily in Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu and Tamil industry. She had been a noted lead actress during the 1980s. Now, she has also started doing serials and game shows. Rajyalaksmi was born on 18th December, 1964 in Tenali, Andhra Pradesh. From young age itself, she and her mother used to act in small plays. At the age of fifteen, she got her first offer to act in a Telugu movie Sankarabharanam playing the character of Sarada. She was married to Ramesh Krishnan in 1990, and they together have two children named Rahul Ramesh and Rohit Ramesh. Presently, she is residing in Chennai with her family. Rajyalakshmi started her career as a child artist with a Tamil film Kanimuthu Paappa in 1972. Next, she was seen acting in Koodi Balidaare Swarga Sukha in 1979.

Twara Desai is a young actress who is best known for her recent television appearance in the series ‘Meera’ (2009), which is based on the life of ‘Meera Bai’ who is considered as a great devotee of Lord Shri Krishna and a poet of Hindi Kavya (Poetry). The show was broadcasted by NDTV Imagine, it successfully completed 134 episodes and it was well perceived by the audiences and critics.

Sara Arjun is a cute child actress in India. She has acted in hundreds of advertisements since childhood.

Kalyani Natarajan is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Tamil cinema. She is a Tamilian based in Mumbai where she had enacted as many as 15 Tamil plays on stage. She relocated to Kollywood in order to pursue her passion of acting in films. Before making her debut in movies, she handled many modeling assignments as well. After which she had begun her film journey. She was auditioned for Sathyaraj’s wife in director Vijay’s ‘Thalaivaa’, but she could not make it. Hence, the first film that came in her lap was ‘Settai’( Tamil) that released in 2013. ‘Settai’ was a remake of Hindi movie Delhi Belly where she appeared in a cameo role. In the same year, she appeared as Imran Khan’s sister-in-law in Dharma Productions 'Gori Tere Pyaar Mein’. Sooner, she followed up doing many supporting roles in various Tamil movies. In 2014, she was seen in a movie ‘Saivam’ (a remake of Telugu film ‘Dagudumootha Dandako,' where she appeared as Nassar's daughter Meenakshi and got noticed. But she met with her biggest success in Mysskin’s Pisaasu where she essayed the role of a mother in the form of Janaki Soundarrajan. It seems that when she came to Chennai for the release function of ‘Saivam’, she met the film director Mysskin and enquired if he was looking for someone to play a character in his film. Later, the director auditioned her for the role. The actress also is doing a small cameo in ‘Atlee’s Vijay 59,’ where she will play the role of a doctor.

Kausalya Telugu born in India, often confused with the popular yesteryear actress Kausalya aka Nandini, is a new face that entered in 2013 into the Indian film Industry. There is only a little stuff known about her as she is new in T- Town. It is known that the actress is entirely focused only in Tollywood as this is just the beginning of her career.

Uthara Unnikrishnan is the daughter of Indian playback singer Unni Krishnan. She came to spotlight for winning National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer in 2015 for her rendition of the song ‘Azhagu’ from Tamil film ‘Saivam’. She is the first Indian playback singer to record a song at the age of just seven and received the award when she was ten. She is thus the young recipient to get such honor in Indian playback singing. 

Brinda is one of the best choreographers of South Indian cinema and Bollywood. Her name comes in the list of the greatest artist of the 21st century. Brinda through her talent and dance moves made it to the South Indian film industry and Bollywood also. Brinda has worked in the glamour industry for past 20 years as a professional choreographer. Brinda dedicated all her life to choreographing and assisting various notable actors.

Chinnaponnu was born in Suranam in Sivagangai District in Tamil Nadu, India. As a child of thirteen years old, she actively participated in several temple festivals and churches. After that, she started to sing in the troupe of Artist Kottaisamy as a professional singer. She used to say him as her mentor. Later she was noticed by Gunasekar, who is a member of the Communist party. As he searched for folk songs and folk artists, he helped her explore herself in several parts of the state. By 2004, she made her first entry into the Tamil cinemas as a playback singer for the movie Chandramuki song Valthuren Valthuren.

S Suresh Babu is a renowned screenwriter born in Kerala, India, and has worked for the Mollywood entertainment industry. He made his Ist debut as a writer in Dada Sahib. After that, Suresh worked with many entertainment films starting from 2005, Five Fingers, Shikkar in 2010, Thiruvambadi Thamban in 2012, The Reporter, Kanal in 2015, and Jalam in 2016.  He received the Kerala state film award for the best editor.

Ray Paul, also known as Ray Paul Mano, is an actor from India. He is a child artist who has worked in supporting roles in various Tollywood movies and was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Ray Paul is known for Hero (2019), Trisha Illyana Nayantara (2015) and Saivam (2014). Since childhood, he has had a great interest in acting and got a small role as a child actor in his first movie; since then, he has acted in many films. Ray Paul has worked in the entertainment industry in Tollywood and Kollywood.

Nassar is one of the multi talented actors in the Indian cinema industry. He has achieved various awards for his acting performance. He is not only an actor, but a producer and a good director too. Mehaboob Nassar is his full name and Nassar remained as his stage name. He is married to Kameela and has three children. His debut was through Kalyana Agathigal, a Balachander movie. He has acted in various films with different roles. Most of his roles depict him as a villain. After few years of his successful villain roles, he jumped to character roles that yielded him fame. He did a good role in Roja as a good Police Officer. His role in Thevar Magan made him to get a good name. He made his debut as a director through Avatharam in the year 1995. He acted in a lead role in the film alongside Revathi. Revathi acted as Blind women in this film. Nassar performed as a blind singer in the film Minsara Kanavu. He did a dual role in Jeans. He did a different role in Saivam, in which he acted as a village grandpa of Baby Sarah. From his debut in 1985, till now in Kamal's Uttama Villain, he has earned good name and lots of fans too. He has been awarded as Kalaimamani by Government of Tamilnadu.

In Indian cinema, there are very few singers and music composers who made their mark in acting too. By having the talent of music along with acting skills, one can get a great chance in the film industry like G.V. Prakash Kumar.

G. V. Prakash Kumar is the new Kollywood singer who, after earning a good name in the music industry, made his acting debut with Pencil opposite Sri Divya, but the project got delayed. His next film Darling got released earlier. Darling was a remake of Telugu film Prema Katha Chitram, which became popular. His third film is going to be in Telugu and Tamil. Telugu film titled Trisha Ledha Nayanthara and Tamil titled Trisha Illana Nayanthara will be released in September 17, 2015. The actor has signed two new films Bruce Lee and Sam Anton, which is getting ready for its shooting.

As a music composer, he already made a huge impact in Tamil Cinema. He was a vocalist on the soundtrack for A R Rahman’s score in Gentleman. Prakash made a contribution to Rahman’s numerous projects. He worked with Harris Jayaraj and sang two popular songs in Anniyan and Unnale Unnale, but he got the break as a full-fledged composer in Tamil film Veyil. His score in Madrasapattinam was appreciated by the masses; especially he cast a spell for his number in the song” "Pookal Pookum Tharunam". The composer made even Dhanush to sing for a song” Voda Voda Voda” and even recorded some songs with his wife Saindhavi.

A young brain deeply rooted in Indian music, his talent needs no mention, but when a singer, composer makes a mark in acting as a hero, it is indeed a milestone in the cine world. Very few had achieved this status, one being legendary playback singer Kishore Kumar. G. V. Prakash Kumar is married to Saindhavi, who is also a playback singer.

Suresh was born as Seshaiah Suresh Babu. Suresh is a homebound film actor and is famous for his films primarily in Telugu and Tamil. Suresh made his acting debut in the movie Panneer Pushpangal in the year 1981. The movie happens to be a Tamil film. His debut movie was a blockbuster hit on the silver screen, and soon he became the prominent face of the Tamil Film Industry, through the 80’s era. By the end of 2012, Suresh had done about 274 motion films. Suresh was born and brought up in Chennai. He was cultured at the Oxford English High School. Soon after this, he went to Shrine Vailankanni English School, where he completed his education. Suresh got married to Rajashree Bishit but after a long time, both got divorced.

A.L. Vijay is a Tamil, film director. He was born on 2 May 1979, in Tamil Nadu. He studied under Priyadarshan, who is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter and has known to direct about 90 films in various languages.

Na. Muthukumar is a poet, lyricist, writer and novelist, who writes in Tamil. He is famous for writing scripts and songs for Tamil films. Na. Muthukumar was born on 12 July 1975 in a small village named ‘Tirur’ near Kanchipuram in Tamil Nadu. His Father, Mr Nagaraj was a Tamil teacher.Mr Nagaraj always maintained a collection of 5000 books throughout his life, and after he had passed away, this collection was preserved by his son in his office. Also, his mother passed away when he was merely four years old. Muthukumar reminisces that he acquired most of the knowledge of his life from his father’s book collection. Also, to help others he has plans to open a library where everybody could access those books. Na. Muthukumar began his career with a dream to be a director. So, he started working under director Balu Mahendra for about four years as assistant director. But due to turn of events, he landed into being a lyricist. He began with writing the lyrics for the Tamil movie ‘Veera Nadai’ which was directed by Seeman.

Haricharan Seshadri is an eminent Carnatic singer who gives his vocal in many Malayalam, Tamil, and other regional movies. He made his debut through the Tamil flick ‘Kadal’, in which he got the chance to sing two solo songs "Unakkena Iruppaen" and the title song "Kaadhal". In the same movie, he also had sung a duet song ‘Thottu Thottu’ with Harini Shankar. 
 

Gana Bala, a famous singer and lyricist of Kollywood, was born as Bala Murugan, but he adopted the name Gana Bala himself as a stage name. Sometimes, he is also known as Anathai Bala, 'Gana Kuyil King' Bala. He was born to V. S. Mani and M. Punniyam. Bala studied law at Presidency College in Chennai after studying Botany. After being graduated, his chance at fame began when he participated in a reality TV show called Gana Kuyil Pattu. The show was aired on Kalaignar TV, and he won it. In the singing field, he has specific expertise in the Gaana genre in the Tamil industry. In fact, he is given a lot of credit for reviving the genre back in the industry. He gained a lot of success and fame after Aadi Pona Aavani, and Nadukadalula Kappala came out as a part of the soundtrack of Attakathi. He also received several nominations and won the Vikatan Award for playback singing in that movie. It was his big break and after that he has done innumerable songs in movies, albums under famous composers like G. V. Prakash Kumar.

Nirav Shah is an esteemed name, in the field of Indian cinematography. He is best known for his works in Bollywood blockbusters “Dhoom,” and “Dhoom 2”, and numerous other Hindi and Tamil hits.

Chinni Prakash is an Indian choreographer, actor, art director, director, and script-writer. He always had an eye for making it into the Arena of Cinema in India. So, after finishing his studies, he came to Mumbai in search of a career in his dream profession. Luckily, he was introduced to a choreographer Sampath, who took Chinni as his assistant. His work was limited such that he used to choreograph the little portion of the songs.

Luthfudeen Basha is an actor who has worked in South Indian films. Luthfudeen is the middle son of famous actor and director, M. Nassar, and Kameela, his mother. Luthfudeen has two siblings- Abdul Asan Faizal, his elder brother and Abi Mehdhi Hassan, his younger brother. His elder brother was to make his debut with T.Siva’s movie but he couldn’t because of some unfavorable circumstances.

A L Azhagappan is an Indian producer and actor working in the Tamil film industry. He was born on 18 September 1951. He became a famous actor through his film “Easan” which was released in 2010. He came into the Tamil film industry as a producer. The first film he produced was “Ini Ellam Sugame” in 1998. He was elected as “the President of the Tamil Nadu Producers Council” in 2004. He has produced many other Tamil movies since 1998, namely “Kalakalappu” in 2001, “Saivam” in 2014, “Idhhu Enna Maayam” in 2015, “Oru Naal Iravil” in 2016, and “Sometimes” in 2017. 

He is an Indian supporting actor in the film industry. He has mostly worked in the Tamil film industry. He was born on 24th October 1974. He is an alumnus of The American College in Madurai and the National School of Drama. In 2004, he was introduced in the industry by Kamal Hasan in the action movie Virumaandi; after that, he worked in Madhurey in the same year.